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now harry reid is suddenly the guy for fast action. where was he when they took a five-week vacation? >> should have been here. and september 30 seems to happen every calendar year. >> i have noticed that as well. >> i'm not sure why this is a startling fact. it's as if we saved the day by beating the deadline of october 1. can you imagine any business -- fox news, my small business -- running my i books based on the day before all the bills start getting due for the next cycle? >> why don't others see it that way? everyone is busy talking about the continued resolution, but no one understands the job of creating a budget and agreeing on a budget was never met. so this is sort of -- one job wasn't done. now a second job to cover up for the first job not done can't be done. it's like hiring a secretary for your secretary who isn't doing the job. it doesn't work. if you look at the last four year where is the senate had no budget whatsoever, the fact that we have a budget now is a laughable document simply because it needs another trilli
now harry reid is suddenly the guy for fast action. where was he when they took a five-week vacation? >> should have been here. and september 30 seems to happen every calendar year. >> i have noticed that as well. >> i'm not sure why this is a startling fact. it's as if we saved the day by beating the deadline of october 1. can you imagine any business -- fox news, my small business -- running my i books based on the day before all the bills start getting due for the next...
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reid and the old guard of the republican party, i am lou dobbs. good evening, day 14 of the government shut down, three days aw from aell a make believe deadline, to raise the debt ceiling this is where we're tonight. a deal is emerging. between senate leadereid, and minoty leader mcconnell, fox news confirmed that deal would fund government until january and suspending debt ceiling until february, senate democrats willing to accept spending levels until january an an effort to have a battle over a new round of sequester spending cuts that kick in at the beginning of the year, medical device tax, imposed by obamacare, stays at t assistance of the white house. and senator reid. but a requirement that the government verify income eligiblability for obama carry subsidies is in the deal. senators reid and mcconnell have all but forgoen about speaker boehner and hou conservatives he must persuade to push ts agreement through the house. unless speaker boehner relies n house democrats to ps the legislation. that would be a violation ofhe -called hastert
reid and the old guard of the republican party, i am lou dobbs. good evening, day 14 of the government shut down, three days aw from aell a make believe deadline, to raise the debt ceiling this is where we're tonight. a deal is emerging. between senate leadereid, and minoty leader mcconnell, fox news confirmed that deal would fund government until january and suspending debt ceiling until february, senate democrats willing to accept spending levels until january an an effort to have a battle...
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. >> well, in a letter to senate majority leader harry reid, five republican senators disagreed. they write, "we the undersigned intend to oppose any legislation that would fringe on american people's constitutional rights to bear arms or exercise this right without being suggested to government surveillance. we'll oppose the motion to proceed to any legislation that will serve as a vehicle for any additional gun restrictions." a filibuster declared. ron reagan, they're not going to fight this thing but make sure nobody gets to vote on background checks. they consider it a privacy matter, apparently. >> there are a couple things going on here. on the political side, of course, and the least important side, you have marco rubio, rand paul, and ted cruz, three of the five musketeers here, who are really grandstanding and looking ahead to 2016. and these three guys are going to be elbowing their way into each other's limelight for the next three years. so you might as well get used to that. but the more important thing that's going on here has to do with democracy, and how we procee
. >> well, in a letter to senate majority leader harry reid, five republican senators disagreed. they write, "we the undersigned intend to oppose any legislation that would fringe on american people's constitutional rights to bear arms or exercise this right without being suggested to government surveillance. we'll oppose the motion to proceed to any legislation that will serve as a vehicle for any additional gun restrictions." a filibuster declared. ron reagan, they're not...
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i'm saying from harry reid's perspective. if i'm harry reid i want the democrats to remain the majority for taxes healthcare foreign policies and not for just one issue. if i'm michael bloomberg who is focused on a single issue i would say mr. mayor you keep doing what you want to do because you're pressing this issue and you're keeping it at the front of everyone's agenda. >> michael: what do you do if these are two people who can't be advised. i would imagine that nobody advises mike bloomberg and fewer advise harry reid. >> they would have to reconcile on this. >> michael: what is the reconcileization. >> there is no reconciliation. harry reid has a government agenda and michael bloomberg has a gun control agenda. i don't know how you reconcile the two. >> michael: harry reid, majority leader, wouldn't it be great to have his legacy while he was majority leader, the back background checks past. >> if in a a year from now they receive enough support protection or think for more gun safety laws, less gun violence. then harry
i'm saying from harry reid's perspective. if i'm harry reid i want the democrats to remain the majority for taxes healthcare foreign policies and not for just one issue. if i'm michael bloomberg who is focused on a single issue i would say mr. mayor you keep doing what you want to do because you're pressing this issue and you're keeping it at the front of everyone's agenda. >> michael: what do you do if these are two people who can't be advised. i would imagine that nobody advises mike...
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harry reid said this situation was taken care of. they did filibuster reform at the beginning of congress. [ laughing ] these will, quote weaken the ability to seek to obstructionist for obstructionist sake will reform reform--come on, man. what kind of yoke is this? if these reforms are not enough to end gridlock in washington we'll consider doing more in the future. when, when are you going to do it? michael, what degree of blame do the democrats particularly harry reid get for this bill failing because they didn't do filibuster. >> comedy and comedy, the way he spelled it and the way it wound up. the democrats deserve a great deal of blame. the senators deserve all the blame on this. it's not just democrats. it's republicans and democrats. it's not just republicans either. people in the minority want to protect the minority until a time that they're in the minority. it makes all the sense. when you see what filibusters have done, and the changes they made are not changes that the american people can see. these are procedural chang
harry reid said this situation was taken care of. they did filibuster reform at the beginning of congress. [ laughing ] these will, quote weaken the ability to seek to obstructionist for obstructionist sake will reform reform--come on, man. what kind of yoke is this? if these reforms are not enough to end gridlock in washington we'll consider doing more in the future. when, when are you going to do it? michael, what degree of blame do the democrats particularly harry reid get for this bill...
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and this morning john boehner, harry reid, nancy pelosi and mitch mcconnell agreed this is the right course of action. i respect the views of those who call for caution, particularly as our country emerges from a time of war that i was elected, in part, to end. but if we really do want to turn away from taking appropriate action in the face of such an unspeakable outrage, then we must acknowledge the costs of doing nothing. here is my question for every member of congress and every member of the global community. what message will we send if a dictator can gas hundreds of children to death in plain sight and pay no price? what's the purpose of the international system that we have built if a probation on the use of chemical weapons that has been agreed to by the governments of 98% of the world's people and approved overwhelmingly by the congress of the united states is not enforced? make no mistake. this has implications beyond chemical warfare. if we won't enforce accountability in the face of this heinous act, what does it say about our resolve to stand up to others who flaunt inte
and this morning john boehner, harry reid, nancy pelosi and mitch mcconnell agreed this is the right course of action. i respect the views of those who call for caution, particularly as our country emerges from a time of war that i was elected, in part, to end. but if we really do want to turn away from taking appropriate action in the face of such an unspeakable outrage, then we must acknowledge the costs of doing nothing. here is my question for every member of congress and every member of...
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harry reid is having none of it. we'll discuss the all-nighter. continuing to watch the house floor where members are expected to debate ryan murray budget. we'll have an update on that after the break. [ female announcer ] we eased your back pain... ♪ ready or not. [ female announcer ] ...so you can be up there. here i come! [ female announcer ] ...down there, around there... and under there for him. tylenol® provides strong pain relief and won't irritate your stomach the way aleve® or even advil® can. but for everything we do, we know you do so much more. tylenol®. hands for holding. feet, kicking. better things than the joint pain and swelling of moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. if you're trying to manage your ra, now may be the time to ask about xeljanz. xeljanz (tofacitinib) is a small pill for adults with moderate to severe ra for whom methotrexate did not work well. xeljanz can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal infections and cancers have happened in patients taking xeljan
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other things like the assault weapons ban, much tougher to get through. >> i mean, this is harry reid's biggest nightmare having the senate go first on assault weapons ban. this is not something he wants to bring up. i don't think he's, you know, my guess is there are a number of moderate democrats who come from states that are pro-gun states and they, i mean, we know that the last time that washington passed an assault weapons ban, that hurt democrats on the ballot the next time. and this is not a battle everyone in the democratic leadership wants. >> let's bring us now to the local level. i want to bring scott back into this, because i know that you've also talked to our local mayors, oakland mayor gene quan and san francisco mayor ed lee. they're in washington, they're there for the u.s. conference of mayors. how much of this debate actually affects us at the local level? cities like oakland, where there were four homicides within six hours last friday? where the crime rate for serious crimes has climbed 23% in the last year alone? does it have that much of an impact at the local lev
other things like the assault weapons ban, much tougher to get through. >> i mean, this is harry reid's biggest nightmare having the senate go first on assault weapons ban. this is not something he wants to bring up. i don't think he's, you know, my guess is there are a number of moderate democrats who come from states that are pro-gun states and they, i mean, we know that the last time that washington passed an assault weapons ban, that hurt democrats on the ballot the next time. and...
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are democrats confident harry reid can get quick votes and victories on both? >> not at all. harry reid is from a red state that very much favors loose restrictions on firearms that very much favors the assault weapon's ban, it is going to be a tough bridging of the gap for him either way. >> michael: jim on guns almost every recent opinion poll has found wide-spread support for background checks. you wrote about this. is the nra now losing relevancy with being so out of touch with what the american people want? >> not necessarily with their own base. i think they are still pandering to their constituents fairly effectively. which is why i think there are still a lot of nervous legislators. i'm not so sure particularly on background checks maybe something on straw purchases, but when senator coburn the gynecologist personed politician seems to have drawn his line in the sand on the government keeping a quote registry or keeping anything for more than a nano second, that raises a lot of questions on whether the other folks can come up with a deal. so i'm not as confident as yo
are democrats confident harry reid can get quick votes and victories on both? >> not at all. harry reid is from a red state that very much favors loose restrictions on firearms that very much favors the assault weapon's ban, it is going to be a tough bridging of the gap for him either way. >> michael: jim on guns almost every recent opinion poll has found wide-spread support for background checks. you wrote about this. is the nra now losing relevancy with being so out of touch with...
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the senate just talk to harry reid. everybody focussing on house republicans. the democrats have their own issues in the senate. harry reid from the very beginning of this discussion was not out front going, oh, you know what, we really need to do this. >> he was -- on sunday he didn't -- he read dianne feinstein's -- >> he made it very clear that this was not going because of the interests in the state where they're building and manufacturing. the question i think that you ultimately come down to and luke and others may hear this on the hell is with this whole idea of the assault weapons ban per se, people are buying these guns. it's the number one seller, the ar-15. they're getting them in droves. they're not just buying one. they're buying three, four. does ban then lead to confiscation? you have now armed a significant portion of the gun population. >> well, 300 more americans own guns than cars. >> there were 1.5 million preban assault weapons. 25 million preban high capacity making sfwleenz, and 4.7 million high capacity magazines. >> speaking to the conc
the senate just talk to harry reid. everybody focussing on house republicans. the democrats have their own issues in the senate. harry reid from the very beginning of this discussion was not out front going, oh, you know what, we really need to do this. >> he was -- on sunday he didn't -- he read dianne feinstein's -- >> he made it very clear that this was not going because of the interests in the state where they're building and manufacturing. the question i think that you...
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reporter: the big question is how far harry reid is willing to go. he has signaled he is willing to put a bill in the senate, but also has a pro-gun voting record. >> i didn't vote for assault weapons last time, but i will take a look at it. i think we need to take a look at it. federal federal trafficking, i think that everyone acknowledges we should do something for backound checks. reporter: after president obama says he does skeet shooting at camp david all the time, he enjoys competing with friends. it will impose stronger penalties for stock purchases. it is not clear how far the house is willing to go in president's proposal if at all. lou: mike emanuel, thank you. our chief congressional correspondent. our first guest tonight says that nablus may have seen a decline in murders, this to be his doing so without any laws that infringe upon the second amendment. joining us now is the research director at the athens institute . let's start with minneapolis. do you think that they have improved? we would like to point out again that minneapolis has
reporter: the big question is how far harry reid is willing to go. he has signaled he is willing to put a bill in the senate, but also has a pro-gun voting record. >> i didn't vote for assault weapons last time, but i will take a look at it. i think we need to take a look at it. federal federal trafficking, i think that everyone acknowledges we should do something for backound checks. reporter: after president obama says he does skeet shooting at camp david all the time, he enjoys...
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throws only two that the president can't hide from and harry reid cannot win on. that's why this is a mess. the president's response has been to attack republicans. to have no negotiations. the office bill clinton in 1995. >> newt, please. the president has been one of the most conciliatory negotiators over a period of time. and i have to correct my good friend. i was here during the passage of the affordable care act which went through regular order, which both houses, the senate and the house asked for republican input. asked for amendments. allowed them to have it. it went through what this has not gone through. the hearing process and as well, the mark-up process which technically, if you look at the morning show that's on abc that talks about how you do a bill cartoon. we went through the regular order. our speaker, speaker pelosi was an excellent leader. one, because the 111th congress was the busiest, most successful in terms of bills that helped the american people, including the g.i. bill that hemmed our returning iraq soldiers. >> what you call a success
throws only two that the president can't hide from and harry reid cannot win on. that's why this is a mess. the president's response has been to attack republicans. to have no negotiations. the office bill clinton in 1995. >> newt, please. the president has been one of the most conciliatory negotiators over a period of time. and i have to correct my good friend. i was here during the passage of the affordable care act which went through regular order, which both houses, the senate and the...
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even harry reid uttered that statement. gun control, immigration, global warming, obamacare, it's been a tough year for the president. but hey, at least he picked louisville to go to the final four. joining me now with reaction, former new hampshire governor, a good friend, john sununu. former new mexico governor, bill richardson. governor sununu, global warming, budget doa, gun control, nobody wants him involved in the immigration legislation. nothing. he can't get anything accomplished. why? >> sean, that's exactly the same as last term. he got obamacare. he got the stimulus money. he got nothing else. he does not know how to lead. but what he had last term was he constantly blamed bush. now he can't do that. now that he can't do that, even the liberal press has to see that the emperor has no clothes. this is a man with no experience, and the lack of experience is hurting america today. he doesn't know that you do more than say i want a bill called gun control and somehow it comes magically. he's got to work. he's work av
even harry reid uttered that statement. gun control, immigration, global warming, obamacare, it's been a tough year for the president. but hey, at least he picked louisville to go to the final four. joining me now with reaction, former new hampshire governor, a good friend, john sununu. former new mexico governor, bill richardson. governor sununu, global warming, budget doa, gun control, nobody wants him involved in the immigration legislation. nothing. he can't get anything accomplished. why?...
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harry reid almost lost his job to someone wearing a tinfoil hat hat. so i think that harry reid is going to let this die but that's how the president wins. if the president fights a battle that he knows he's doomed to fail god for bid there is a massacre or the next ten massacres he can point his finger right to the people who killed this bill and say you own this. that would be a political win for this president at a bloody cost. >> cenk: your analysis is right. but if he wanted a legislative and policy victory, of course, what he would to is go to fellow democrats as your appointing out and say hey i need your vote on this come hell or high water. it's not an easy fight. harry reid bragged that he knows about guns because his father shot himself in the head. that was the most bizarre bragging i've seen in my life and it's pathetic. i know it's a high hurdle, and i'm not putting it all on the president but this is a way of trying and being artful. >> michael: by saying it deserves a vote. it deserves a vote. of course it's grandiose but this was a "te
harry reid almost lost his job to someone wearing a tinfoil hat hat. so i think that harry reid is going to let this die but that's how the president wins. if the president fights a battle that he knows he's doomed to fail god for bid there is a massacre or the next ten massacres he can point his finger right to the people who killed this bill and say you own this. that would be a political win for this president at a bloody cost. >> cenk: your analysis is right. but if he wanted a...
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i don't know said harry reid, i don't like the word broken. remember, we're not dealing with rational folks. i do believe they have been hurt ir reply irreparabley. >> cruz had this to say. >> i will continue to do anything i can to stop the train wreck that is obama care. i'm not serve in office because i desperately needed 99 new friends in the u.s. senate or really, any friends at all. as josh green writes, the wacko bird wing of the republican party is unlikely to back down any time soon. quote, while the shutdown might look like spectacular self-immolation of band or bitter enders it's a better understood as the natural consequence of decades long shift in the american political landscape. over the last century and especially since the mid 1970s congress has grown steadily more polarized as the south has relined from solidly democratic to republican. joining me ryan grim, eugene robinson and co-founder of the in si insight agency ben le bold. joining us from washington senior national correspondent for bloomberg business week josh green,
i don't know said harry reid, i don't like the word broken. remember, we're not dealing with rational folks. i do believe they have been hurt ir reply irreparabley. >> cruz had this to say. >> i will continue to do anything i can to stop the train wreck that is obama care. i'm not serve in office because i desperately needed 99 new friends in the u.s. senate or really, any friends at all. as josh green writes, the wacko bird wing of the republican party is unlikely to back down any...
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you're in harry reid's office. imagine you're sitting with harry reid, the old prop. he speaks softly but he has a big stick. what does he say when you get in there was the new kid on the block to say this. >> when we urged him to do this and he was for this and we were moving down the road, he did the vote count and i didn't think we were quite there. he didn't think we had enough votes -- >> did you have his vote? >> he wanted to do this. he wanted to do this. he said he wanted to do this and he said he didn't have enough votes and that's where we were, but the idea is still a very good one and it was proven out in the two situations you just talked about. halligan, secret, exception, behind the scenes, people don't realize that court needs four justices and she was very well-qualified and she was deep sixed. on the other hand, rand paul stepped up to the plate, made his point, got some answers, and we got the brennan nomination gone. >> let me talk to michael steele. it seems to me we have a very good system of checks and balances. to get something passed you have
you're in harry reid's office. imagine you're sitting with harry reid, the old prop. he speaks softly but he has a big stick. what does he say when you get in there was the new kid on the block to say this. >> when we urged him to do this and he was for this and we were moving down the road, he did the vote count and i didn't think we were quite there. he didn't think we had enough votes -- >> did you have his vote? >> he wanted to do this. he wanted to do this. he said he...
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i think people will -- >> will harry reid bring it up for a vote? >> i hope so. >> what are you hearing? >> we think that people ought to be given the opportunity to offer bills, offer amendments on the senate floor. he said it's going to be an open process. >> so if schumer wants a bill, it'll get a vote. and you think that'll happen? >> i think so. >> let's talk about this trafficking bill. how much of a mark would that play? how much would that stop dangerous behavior with guns? if you were stopping people from buying guns who had a criminal intent? >> right now the penalty for that is something like the same as for trafficking livestock or chickens. and that's not a particularly stiff penalty and a lot of prosecutors don't want to do it. adding a penalty will make a difference. it's an important bill. >> if the call comes from chicago, i want to get semiautomatic weapons i'm going after a bank job, they would not suffer a serious criminal threat? >> straw purchasing for example is when somebody who is able to buy a gun because they have a clean
i think people will -- >> will harry reid bring it up for a vote? >> i hope so. >> what are you hearing? >> we think that people ought to be given the opportunity to offer bills, offer amendments on the senate floor. he said it's going to be an open process. >> so if schumer wants a bill, it'll get a vote. and you think that'll happen? >> i think so. >> let's talk about this trafficking bill. how much of a mark would that play? how much would that stop...
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works we see harry reid who is the senate majority leader and is not going to include the high c to vacity magazines or assault weapons ban in the bill. he says in the asslslt weapons ban it wounal n't get 4083otes, let alone 60. what is going on? >> certainly in this country we have a83ery powerful gun lobby and the leadership of the n.r.a. has done a good job over many, many years of controlling the debate on this issue. one thing that is different now is the fact that we had 20 first graders murdered in a classroom along with six educators. i mean that is unahiceptacontrd the american people want something done on this. 912% of americans -- 92--of americans support a universal background check and 74% of n.r.a. members. i wounal hope at some point tt the leadership of the n.r.a. would just listen to their membership on this iss mo. >> chris: we will get to the background check in a second. one last question about the senate. repucontricans say they will or an alternative bill that would crack down on gun trafficking and wounal beef uysschool safy that would not include the background ch
works we see harry reid who is the senate majority leader and is not going to include the high c to vacity magazines or assault weapons ban in the bill. he says in the asslslt weapons ban it wounal n't get 4083otes, let alone 60. what is going on? >> certainly in this country we have a83ery powerful gun lobby and the leadership of the n.r.a. has done a good job over many, many years of controlling the debate on this issue. one thing that is different now is the fact that we had 20 first...
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majority leader harry reid and minority leader mitch mcconnell square off. >>> plus, our roundtable weighs in on the politics of immigration, abortion, and the busy and lucrative life of a former cabinet second toir, potential 2016 powerhouse.retar potential 2016 powerhouse. >> good sunday morning. a lot of news this sunday morni morning. after deliberating 16 hours and 20 minutes, not guilty says the jury in the george zimmerman trial, the trial filled with 12 days of emotional testimony and conflicting versions of what happened the night 16 months ago when trayvon martin was shot and killed. for reaction to the verdict, remaining questions, and what it all means, first we want to go live to sanford, florida. nbc's kerry sanders who has been covering this case from the beginning. there was concern about negative reaction to this verdict perhaps spilling into the streets. the good news this morning, people just waking up, it has not been a violent night. is that right? >> reporter: that is correct. peaceful here, peaceful in south florida where trayvon martin was from. i was in the courtro
majority leader harry reid and minority leader mitch mcconnell square off. >>> plus, our roundtable weighs in on the politics of immigration, abortion, and the busy and lucrative life of a former cabinet second toir, potential 2016 powerhouse.retar potential 2016 powerhouse. >> good sunday morning. a lot of news this sunday morni morning. after deliberating 16 hours and 20 minutes, not guilty says the jury in the george zimmerman trial, the trial filled with 12 days of emotional...
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so i asked harry reid if i could borrow his. you think the nsa is going to be surprised when they see harry reid at a tea party? >> do you believe what's going on with the irs is wrong? do you believe it's an abuse of your personal freedom? do you want a federal investigation? well then say it very loudly, tell the men in charge here to investigate the men over there. >> we have got to you night. we have got to join hands. we have got to fight this to the very end. this is not an option. this is an obligation. >> do we trust the irs with obama care and our health care? we need to abolish the irs and together we can get it done. >> sean: joining me two members of congress who spoke at this afternoon's rally, jim jordan and michele bachmann. welcome. congresswoman let's start with you. can we abolish the irs and how? >> of course we can. congress needs to introduce a bill and we can make it happen. we're the one whose created the irs and we're the ones after 100 years that can let it go away. it's the most feared agency in the uni
so i asked harry reid if i could borrow his. you think the nsa is going to be surprised when they see harry reid at a tea party? >> do you believe what's going on with the irs is wrong? do you believe it's an abuse of your personal freedom? do you want a federal investigation? well then say it very loudly, tell the men in charge here to investigate the men over there. >> we have got to you night. we have got to join hands. we have got to fight this to the very end. this is not an...
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. >> that's where harry reid is already talking about tax increases because you know we have to go back to the table, come the 15th of january, and then also the 7th of february, dealing with funding the forecast with the cr and then also with the debt ceiling. and you hear harry reid saying that everyone in the united states of america wants to have tax increases. because this was once $940 billion. that was the price tag. now the cbo has put it at 1.8 trillion. based on what you are saying with these unknowns out there in the economic world, it can increase to be 2 to 3 trillion, maybe. >> see, that's the answer i don't have. i'm willing that they can figure out the computer system. >> that will be taken care of. >> i think that's just -- i think that's annoying and troubling and turns people upside down for a cup peel weeks and isn't fair and nice to the american people, but i don't think that's a long-term issue. >> no, i mean, think about these millions of americans that are losing their plans, whatever the president wants to say they were bad apple plans. >> a lot of them were. >>
. >> that's where harry reid is already talking about tax increases because you know we have to go back to the table, come the 15th of january, and then also the 7th of february, dealing with funding the forecast with the cr and then also with the debt ceiling. and you hear harry reid saying that everyone in the united states of america wants to have tax increases. because this was once $940 billion. that was the price tag. now the cbo has put it at 1.8 trillion. based on what you are...
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let's take harry reid, who has coward before the gun lobby if harry reid thinks it's gun lobbyists who got him back in the election, he's nuts. he lost the male vote. it was the obama coalition of union voters, young voters who put harry reid back in office. people like harry reid give the gun lobby far too much credit. >> sam, what's your reaction to that? >> they say the same thing, that the nra has trumped that. and the only thing i would add to that is this. we've seen a lot of recent pollings, specifically background checks, and it's universally popular. i don't see any other issue polling at 90% popularity. if you read specific issues it might dip. this is a noncontroversial bill. it would be surprising to me if democrats felt concerned or nervous about voting for it and i think harry reid recognized that and that's why he's going forward with this in the baseline bill. >> according to "the washington post," these individual gun safety measures have overwhelming support with the public. you know, they have 6 in 10 people, 57% support a been on assault weapons, a majority, obvious
let's take harry reid, who has coward before the gun lobby if harry reid thinks it's gun lobbyists who got him back in the election, he's nuts. he lost the male vote. it was the obama coalition of union voters, young voters who put harry reid back in office. people like harry reid give the gun lobby far too much credit. >> sam, what's your reaction to that? >> they say the same thing, that the nra has trumped that. and the only thing i would add to that is this. we've seen a lot of...
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>> it was the white house and lu and neighbors who went to harry reid and say this is the solution. but everyone has their fingerprints on this. and it is everyone's -- it is the policy and it is law. what is important about it is, travesty.verning trace the idea that you are going to go around and in random ways just cut things. it would be like a family that has to cut the budget saying let's cut the medicine that keeps the children alive. it's stupid. >> chris: kim, having said that it's stupid what are the chances we are actually going to reach march 1 and the sequester, the $85 billion in automatic cuts will kick in and if it does and we begin to see marks reacting and stuff how does it play out with the president insisting there have to be tax hikes on the rich and the republicans saying no, it all needs to come out of spending cuts? >> i think it is likely that we do hit that day and that it comes and the reason why is because the republicans have been asking the white house to come up with some sort of alternative in which you actually prioritize and maybe do something on en
>> it was the white house and lu and neighbors who went to harry reid and say this is the solution. but everyone has their fingerprints on this. and it is everyone's -- it is the policy and it is law. what is important about it is, travesty.verning trace the idea that you are going to go around and in random ways just cut things. it would be like a family that has to cut the budget saying let's cut the medicine that keeps the children alive. it's stupid. >> chris: kim, having said...
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wednesday night, an exclusive interview with senate majority leader harry reid, right here on this show. oh, we have so much to talk about. the secret is out. hydration is in. [ female announcer ] only aveeno daily moisturizing lotion has an active naturals oat formula that creates a moisture reserve so skin can replenish itself. aveeno® naturally beautiful results. >> the year was 1997, ethan hawk and uma thurman were two of the biggest names in hollywood and teamed up to make an odd futureristic movie about life in a society where your genes and dna would determine where your life would go. your genetic make up was used to determine your usefulness to society. >> ten fingers, ten toes. that's all that used to matter. not now. now only seconds old, the exact time and cause of my death was already known. >> neurological conditions, 60%, manic depression, 40% probability. disorder, 99% probability. life expectancy, 32.4 years. >> gatica was excellently weird in its own weird but it was a flop. it sold only enough tickets to take in a third of what it cost to make it so rearly nobody saw
wednesday night, an exclusive interview with senate majority leader harry reid, right here on this show. oh, we have so much to talk about. the secret is out. hydration is in. [ female announcer ] only aveeno daily moisturizing lotion has an active naturals oat formula that creates a moisture reserve so skin can replenish itself. aveeno® naturally beautiful results. >> the year was 1997, ethan hawk and uma thurman were two of the biggest names in hollywood and teamed up to make an odd...
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they could be ugly and risky for harry reid. he is not convening until a few hours before the government shutdown at 2:00 p.m. the president is playing golf. >> they have gotten soft. they say it is thes' fault. -- it is the republicans' fault. they will get more blame, but the democrats will get blamed too. this thing we have been watching is all throwing the snake on the other guy. >> we are about 33 hours away from a government shutdown. it would appear to be happening unless something rad clear different happens -- rad clear frint happens. we will get to regular programming in a moment.s ] thanks for being with us. >>> welcome back. i'm as you know right now i am a proponent of the raw food diet? does it really taste good? putting them to the test are the fox and friends co-host.ther he will be tam pelling -- he will be sampling some treats. welcome both of you. you know, you came on the fox and friends and i came on with you, actually and we had a segment on raw food. >> your books are best sellers. >> and you popped in you
they could be ugly and risky for harry reid. he is not convening until a few hours before the government shutdown at 2:00 p.m. the president is playing golf. >> they have gotten soft. they say it is thes' fault. -- it is the republicans' fault. they will get more blame, but the democrats will get blamed too. this thing we have been watching is all throwing the snake on the other guy. >> we are about 33 hours away from a government shutdown. it would appear to be happening unless...
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majority leader harry reid describing the prospects for immigration reform in the months ahead. >> it is going to be first thing on our agenda. the -- majority, every senate, lists their top ten items. immigration is the number one item. we are going to do immigration. they are now -- agreed tentatively on a path of citizenship which is the big stumbling block. we may be able to come up with a bipartisan bill quicker than you think. >> it is going to move fast. bottom line big deals happening in congress on a bipartisan basis when there are people on both sides who stand to benefit. in this case republicans in congress and republicans nationally immediate immigration reform. perhaps even more be the democrats do. that's why paul ryan jumped onboard. he and marco rubio won on this. that's a big deal. >>> stalemate over spending. president obama says he won't negotiate on the debt limit. is the government shutdown inevitable? greg waldon, a member of the leadership, he joins me on that issue and more on whether his party has primary problem. we will ask him how he plans to deal with tha
majority leader harry reid describing the prospects for immigration reform in the months ahead. >> it is going to be first thing on our agenda. the -- majority, every senate, lists their top ten items. immigration is the number one item. we are going to do immigration. they are now -- agreed tentatively on a path of citizenship which is the big stumbling block. we may be able to come up with a bipartisan bill quicker than you think. >> it is going to move fast. bottom line big deals...
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but it failed mostly because harry reid called a cloture vote. over, some of the issues take a long time to marinate. that that as people thought it through, i think they realize it's not having a good comprehensive immigration policy is hurting us economically and it's not the right thing to do. it's time to solve it. i admire everyone for coming to the table. but i want to make a point. what rand paul is saying is contrast to gang of eight. his idea is security first, legalization and then citizenship. gang of eight put forward legalization, security and then citizenship. that seems like you could find a compromise, but that is a big leap between security and legalization piece and flipping them. >> andrea: what do you think, eric? >> eric: rand paul opened up a can of whoop-ass on the hill and they were flooded with calls say dog you care to weigh in on rand paul's idea? he threw people for a loop. he came out with an idea at one point he said leads to path of citizenship, which is different from a lot of things they say and has been proposed
but it failed mostly because harry reid called a cloture vote. over, some of the issues take a long time to marinate. that that as people thought it through, i think they realize it's not having a good comprehensive immigration policy is hurting us economically and it's not the right thing to do. it's time to solve it. i admire everyone for coming to the table. but i want to make a point. what rand paul is saying is contrast to gang of eight. his idea is security first, legalization and then...
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>> i had a chance to ask harry reid about this at a news conference a couple of weeks ago, and senator reid is giving no indication whatsoever that he is going to take the gavel away, and senator menendez is right about some of the allegations, some of the others that popped up in the conservative news side, the daily caller, no evidence to correspond roborate. the political -- >> almost two years late. >> and did not put them on his disclosure form is a problem for him. >> two weeks ago is one thing. now -- i mean "the new york times" calling for a democrat to remove a democrat from a committee is fairly noteworthy. >> let's say new jersey doesn't exactly have the best record when it comes to ethics in government. what "the new york times" has seen is what many people who live in new jersey or the new york region have seen, which is they're sort of a drip, drip, drip of the new jersey politician that starts off looking like one thing and turns into a much bigger story that obviously was the case with bob torricelli, the former senator who ended up resigning and then we learned a lot a
>> i had a chance to ask harry reid about this at a news conference a couple of weeks ago, and senator reid is giving no indication whatsoever that he is going to take the gavel away, and senator menendez is right about some of the allegations, some of the others that popped up in the conservative news side, the daily caller, no evidence to correspond roborate. the political -- >> almost two years late. >> and did not put them on his disclosure form is a problem for him....
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we also saw president obama now supporting senator harry reid in changing the rules. here he was as a senator. >> what they don't expect is for one party, be it republican or democrat, to change the rules in the middle of the game so that they can make all the decisions while the other party is told to sit down and keep quiet. >> much younger looking president obama there. this is the kind of thing that gets a lot of people out in the country upset. they say listen, there's no principle, it depends on the side and whether you have the power or not. >> if i'm on this show and we have a republican president, i'll say the same thing. president should put their team out there. they may put up nominees that fail in committee and have a scandal and then their own party won't to want vote for them. but for the most part, for these nominees, i'm not talking about the judges, but the president's team, of which there are currently over 180 people that are just pending right now before the senate for the executive office nominations, why we can't do 51 votes is beyond me. it's n
we also saw president obama now supporting senator harry reid in changing the rules. here he was as a senator. >> what they don't expect is for one party, be it republican or democrat, to change the rules in the middle of the game so that they can make all the decisions while the other party is told to sit down and keep quiet. >> much younger looking president obama there. this is the kind of thing that gets a lot of people out in the country upset. they say listen, there's no...
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you're a close friend, worked with him for years, harry reid, what should he do? what can he do? >> well, harry's done all, i think he thinks he is capable of doing right now under the circumstances. he doesn't want to violate the rules of the senate in ways that would speed the process for dealing with rule change. but i actually think there are a couple of things that we could do. one, i think you ought to hold the floor when you're filibustering. just the other day when rand paul did that, i think that went back to the traditions of the senate and we ought to force every senate who is going to require a filibuster to hold the floor. we broke that filibuster in part because senator paul could only hold the floor for about 13 hours and that's really what history is all about. the second thing is i don't think we ought to have a dual track. set bills aside and take up other legislation. if we're going to filibuster, you stay on the bill and you keep the people filibustering until they can't take it anymore. >> are the democrats and harry reid especially and you were in this posit
you're a close friend, worked with him for years, harry reid, what should he do? what can he do? >> well, harry's done all, i think he thinks he is capable of doing right now under the circumstances. he doesn't want to violate the rules of the senate in ways that would speed the process for dealing with rule change. but i actually think there are a couple of things that we could do. one, i think you ought to hold the floor when you're filibustering. just the other day when rand paul did...
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harry reid says he wants to get the bill done before the july 4 recess. it is my understanding the way the bill came down the last go you actually voted against the final bill. i am curious why that was and why this bill is different. >> i did end up voting against theecause there were not limit on lower wage workers coming into our company that would supplant american jobs. there are many pieces to this. the ad job -- ira culture job -- agriculture jobs east of it is important. i want to congratulate senator feinstein for leading an effort that really brought farmworkers together and something they feel is fair and workable with a legal system. as you look at other parts of ie bill, one of the things compliment is that they have made sure there's not some kind of a loophole that would allow a company to bypass an american who needs a job and bring in somebody from outside the country just because they can pay them lower wages. i would not support this bill if it did not create a legal process and limit it in a way that undermines american workers. this n
harry reid says he wants to get the bill done before the july 4 recess. it is my understanding the way the bill came down the last go you actually voted against the final bill. i am curious why that was and why this bill is different. >> i did end up voting against theecause there were not limit on lower wage workers coming into our company that would supplant american jobs. there are many pieces to this. the ad job -- ira culture job -- agriculture jobs east of it is important. i want to...
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hadn't been a budget since the 2nd of april 2009, since harry reid wouldn't put one on the floor you. can't blame the republicans for this. democrats own two pieces of three that make government work. the republicans happen consistently passed budgets, attempted to put things before the president and before the senate. harry reid won't bring it up and the president has time to do is go out and blame republicans for what's wrong this. may happen. it will hurt a lot of people. about it doesn't have to. if the president would step up and be. >> what's up on the show tomorrow? we're going to talk about cyberhacking and it's affecting a lot of people. george bush, he gate code was hacked into. this is a serious issue for america. we have a lot more, but, by the way, sissy houston, whitney's mother will be on as well. >> from benghazi to the border, a new survey showing 40% of americans consider illegal immigration a major cause of unemployment. this is the white house and a group of senators push to legalize as many as 11 million illegal immigrants. bad timing? byron says, out of touch. >>
hadn't been a budget since the 2nd of april 2009, since harry reid wouldn't put one on the floor you. can't blame the republicans for this. democrats own two pieces of three that make government work. the republicans happen consistently passed budgets, attempted to put things before the president and before the senate. harry reid won't bring it up and the president has time to do is go out and blame republicans for what's wrong this. may happen. it will hurt a lot of people. about it doesn't...
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>> reporter: harry reid just announced. when he comes back in at 9:30 and wants to be recognized and whatever message the house sends over, i'll go ahead and table that. in washington speak he's saying if the house sends over this vote to go to conference or conference committee and we want to take this dispute about how to fund the government for the next 55 to 75 days, 45 to 75 days if you're going to go by november 15th or december 15th. they have two different end dates on this. he's going to strip it out again and say no, we're not going to do that. now the ball's back in your court. that's why schumer did that little thing to reenforce that. and the house still plans on doing this. this is another, another ask of the conservative wing of the house republican caucus. they are the ones suggesting to go to conference. this is not a boehner idea. this was coming -- i first heard about this at about 5:00 this afternoon, coming from some of the conservative side of the house republican conference. so this is, again, sort of
>> reporter: harry reid just announced. when he comes back in at 9:30 and wants to be recognized and whatever message the house sends over, i'll go ahead and table that. in washington speak he's saying if the house sends over this vote to go to conference or conference committee and we want to take this dispute about how to fund the government for the next 55 to 75 days, 45 to 75 days if you're going to go by november 15th or december 15th. they have two different end dates on this. he's...
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reid. >> i never saw anything like what harry reid did. to watch him was watching a master at work, superb, politically astute and stamina. >> one thing all democrats agree on, the fight ain't over. joining us democratic senator from north dakota heidi heitkamp. senator, thank you so much for joining us especially on a day you must be tired given all that has transpired on capitol hill. i want to ask you first, how are these negotiations different an here negotiations. as a woman, i ask you did the presence of strong women change the dynamics of this conversation? >> that's been a lot of the talk here. the bottom line is, moderates came together and said we cannot tolerate continuing to cost this economy $24 billion. we can't tolerate $160 million every day getting spent. we have got to resolve this impasse because we've got bigger issues ahead of us like resolving the budget. not just picking out time lines but actually resolving this budget going forward as the president said. >> senator, i agree with you that moderates came out. some pa
reid. >> i never saw anything like what harry reid did. to watch him was watching a master at work, superb, politically astute and stamina. >> one thing all democrats agree on, the fight ain't over. joining us democratic senator from north dakota heidi heitkamp. senator, thank you so much for joining us especially on a day you must be tired given all that has transpired on capitol hill. i want to ask you first, how are these negotiations different an here negotiations. as a woman, i...